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Defending champ Cancellara was cooked

Mud, schmud — the dust was just as bad

The tunnel of cobbled love

Tech Report, with Matt Pacocha - New developments at (a very wet) Sea Otter

Frichi talks tires with Scott’s Adrian Montgomery

Loved by 'cross racers the world 'round, Dugast also offers a beefy MTB tubular

Tires were the topic of the day, as Kabush chats with Maxxis team manager Gary Wolff

Katie Compton winning on 58mm carbon wheels and Dugast Rhino cyclo-cross tires

Tech Report, with Matt Pacocha - New developments at (a very wet) Sea Otter

Manitou’s carbon R7

The Minute MRD

One style of the GT DHi sub-frame

Tech Report, with Matt Pacocha - New developments at (a very wet) Sea Otter

Atherton surprised the competition with a strong ride

On a roll: Kabush has been winning a lot this year

Kabush knows how to celebrate on his birthday weekend.

Like Kabush, Gould has had a great start to 2007

Canadian Kiara Bisaro was second... more than four minutes back.

Bumping elbows with the pros — that’s what Sea Otter is about. Subaru-Gary Fisher professional racer Sam Schultz knows the feeling. The young racer was at Laguna Seca raceway on Friday for SRAM’s launch of its new Monarch air shock platform. He recounted a time not so long ago when he would come to the big events looking around to see what the fast guys were riding. Now we’re checking out what he’s riding, whether he knows it or not. But Sea Otter is about more than just who's using the stuff. The cycling festival gives tech geeks a chance to check in with a host of industry engineers,

Don’t discount Team CSC’s Stuart O’Grady as a candidate for the win in Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix. The 33-year-old Aussie might not be one of the five-star favorites to win the “Hell of the North,” but he can be a wildcard, behind teammate and defending champ Fabian Cancellara. (VeloNews.com will offer up-to-the-minute live coverage of Paris-Roubaix on Sunday. – Editor) “Stuey” barreled into this year’s classics season in his best form in years. After a string of top-five finishes, O’Grady is intent on snagging his first victory since 2004, when he won a stage at the Tour de France, two at the

It’s hard to believe that a strike by firefighters and security personnel on another continent could be mucking up race director Jim Birrell’s day. But that was just the case Friday — the 13th — as Birrell worked from his office, dealing with the final i’s and t’s ahead of Monday's start of the Tour de Georgia. A 10-hour work stoppage at the Brussels International Airport forced the delay or cancellation of almost every arriving and departing flight Friday. That meant major headaches for holiday travelers, and scrambled plans for members of the CSC, Quick Step-Innergetic and

Former world champion Tom Boonen will be among the Belgians feeling the weight of expectation going into Sunday’s edition of Paris-Roubaix, arguably the toughest one-day cycling race in the world. The 26-year-old Belgian has already won once at the “Hell of the North,” as the 111-year-old race is known. But given his frustrating run through the Belgian one-day classics this month, Boonen and compatriots Leif Hoste and Peter Van Petegem will be eager to redress the balance. The three are among a handful of contenders — including defending Roubaix champion Fabian Cancellara and Italians

Halfway through a Laguna Seca circuit race that started under sunny skies, officials cancelled the pro women’s event after hard driving rains sent rivers of mud streaming across the auto racetrack. About 8 laps into a 22-lap event, rain started falling and temperatures plummeted. Soon, the water was coming down so hard riders had difficulty seeing while descending the famed Corkscrew, which sends riders screaming down 300 winding vertical feet in a matter of seconds. Instead of shortening the event — by announcing one lap to go as riders came through the start/finish on the 2.2-mile course —

Events surrounding the 2007 Tour de Georgia officially kicked off Saturday afternoon in Peachtree City, which meant two things were less than 48 hours away: The start of stage 1 and — more significantly — the return of Tyler Hamilton. The 2004 Olympic time trial champion has been racing in Europe since January, but Monday will mark the first time Hamilton turns the cranks in a UCI race on American soil since the 2001 San Francisco Grand Prix. Since then, the now 36-year-old has seen quite a few ups and a healthy share of downs, at a rate few of us will ever know. He won stages at the Tour

Dan Ramsey took a big win for his Successful Living team in at the Sea Otter Classic NRC men’s circuit race. After spending the majority of the race off the front in a two-man move, Ramsey was caught by a small group, but soon attacked again, hoping to set up one of his three teammates who had been brought across. Instead, Ramsey held his solo gap for the final six laps. “I knew I had to be the first one to attack because I had been off the front all day,” Ramsey said. “I was guessing one of my teammates would take the race, not me. I’m really happy for the team. We needed this. I’d like to

After two days of mild temperatures and sunshine, Central California’s skies served the 2007 Sea Otter Classic a full dose of rain, wind and chills. Raindrops began hitting Laguna Seca’s tarmac at 10 a.m. and by noon, gusting winds had that rain falling horizontally. The weather quickly reduced the usually busy Sea Otter expo area into a soggy ghost town. A few brave souls ventured out to watch the races, clad in blue ponchos handed out by Volkswagen. The foul weather led to an early end to the women’s NRC road race and a postponement for the men. But for mountain-bike racers, who had

It looked like strong, cool breezes and sunny skies were to be the reward for those who still retained the sour memories of the torrential rains and near constant crashes of the 2006 Jacksonville Cycling Classic. "You would come around a turn and be hit with a 30 mile an hour wind that would all but knock you down," recalled AEG-Toshiba-Jet Network rider Todd Henriksen. But Henriksen and the rest of the Pro Men's field got at least a small reminder of last year's event when two small but thorough cloud bursts soaked the one-kilometer-long course just minutes before the start. Those

Kelli Emmett (Giant) getting fit for Shimano’s new heat moldable SH-M300 mountain shoe.

Tara Llanes dials in her Giant Trance Advanced (carbon) for the Super D.

Notice the odd-colored swingarm. It looks like it’s from an aluminum Anthem. Giant is testing how a carbon front end mates to an aluminum rear end. The aluminum swingarm has more tire clearance as an added advantage.

3) Niki Gudex designed her own graphics for her race bike. She rode the Ransom in the Super D.

4) Travis Brown (Trek-FRS) talks tires with Schwalbe’s Henry Horrocks.

Brian Lopes’s GT sports a custom rainbow saddle.

Travis Pastrana’s Subaru racing car.

Really, it’s his.

How's that for a booth? Trek-Volkswagen erected a full-sized two-car garage.

Inside, artists silk-screened custom T-shirts.

Felt was showing its final preproduction prototypes of its Redemption trail bike. The chassis relies on Felt’s Equilink design to deliver 7 inches of travel.

Specialized’s new Captain tire, designed by Ned 'The Captain' Overend. The S-Works version is set to cost $45 and the Control version $35.

Christoph Sauser has a new Specialized tire too; it's called the Sauserwind. It will also carry prices of $45 for the S-Works and $35 for the Control version.

Crank Brothers has a new short spindle kit for its eggbeater, this one is made from stainless steel rather than titanium and costs $40.

World champ Jill Kintner’s GT is sporting a custom white set of Juicy Ultimate brakes.

The caliper matches the lever.

SRAM unveiled a bunch of new product, including a new X.0 rear derailleur. The major change is in the cage — instead of full carbon, the inner length of the pulley cage is aluminum.

The Monarch uses a dual air style spring and has a number of adjustment options and usage configurations.

Vivid is RockShox’s new World Cup level coil over rear shock. It features two external rebound adjusters and a low-speed compression adjustment. It also has three interchangeable bottom-out bumpers called drop stops.

Continental has a new 2.4-inch tire called the Mountain King. The Supersonic version weighs 550 grams and costs $50.

Knog’s Frog safety light now comes in nine different colors. The new styles will cost $12 and boast an eight-hour continuous or 160-hour blinking burn time.

O'Grady leads his team through a stretch of cobbles, during a reconnaissance ride on Thursday.

Danielson - here on his way to winning atop Brasstown Bald in 2006 - comes to Georgia as a strong favorite.

A moment to savor. Cancellara's win was enough to erase the memory seven miserable hours in the saddle.

Boonen hopes to overcome the frustrations he's experienced this past week.

Oh the agony. Boonen and Ballan put their chase on hold because of a freight train.

O'Grady is feeling as fit as ever.

Ramsey takes the win on his own

Dan Ramsey and Andy Jaques-Maynes in the early break

Before the storm.

Rain, rain, rain

Compton does it on her own

Trebon tries an early dig...

... Peraud, however, handily counters and rides in for the win.

Rollin powers in for the win

Benjamin grabbed the right wheel.

Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) is still steaming over missing victory in Sunday’s Tour of Flanders. The reigning world time trial champion tried to will his way to the top podium spot, but a mix of tactics, a lack of cooperation from breakaway partners and simply too nice of weather that made for a larger than normal peloton foiled his chances. The 26-year-old will line up Sunday as defending champion at Paris-Roubaix. He told VeloNews he has one aim. “I want to double,” he said flat out. “I don’t know if my form is as good as last year, I was a little sick at Tirreno that set me back a little,

The 17th edition of the Sea Otter Classic opened Thursday under sunny skies and blustery winds. The wind brought cooler temperatures, but no one was complaining too much after a soggy setup on Wednesday. For the VeloNews tech crew, our day opened offsite at the re-launch of Tomac Bicycles, during an event hosted by Joel Smith, a former employee of Answer Products, and brand namesake John Tomac. The company is taking it small this time, testing the waters with only eight employees and a product line built around three core frames. Tomac’s name first graced the down tube of a bicycle in 1999

“(N)o one wants to look like wimps on national television."—Health Net-Maxxis team director Jeff Corbett while discussing whether the inaugural U.S. Open Cycling Championships should be run as scheduled despite wintry weather With all due respect to everyone who took a beating from hypothermia in Virginia or cobblestones in Belgium during this past week, Jeff Corbett had it exactly right. Cycling — and pro cycling in particular — is not for wimps. This is the time of year when colorfully clad cyclists start popping up like migratory tulips on our potholed roads, inspiring bored columnists

Canadian Geoff Kabush (Maxxis) and Czech Katerina Nash (Luna) showed off their early season fitness by winning a short cross-country time trial at the 2007 Sea Otter Classic on Friday. Once an important component of the Sea Otter Classic’s mountain-bike stage race, the time trial provided the first serious separation in general classification. But with Sea Otter ditching the stage-race format for 2007, the time trial offered little more than an opportunity to tests their legs and to give winners bragging rights and a chance to stand atop a podium. That’s not to say the riders didn’t take

Cancellara says he doesn't need a train to win at Roubaix

Joel Smith, John Tomac and the Carbide cross-country bike.

A closer look at the Carbide.

The brand is back

The Spyder

The flex stay design

Scott USA’s Addict SL...

...sports a unique integrated bottom bracket...

Hutchinson and Mavic teamed up for a new 29-inch offering.

Sauser’s custom 2X9 carbon crank.

Sauser’s S-Works Epic race bike

Yeah, there's nothing to this whole bike-racing thing — unless you count the cold and the cobbles

Love the Otter: Kabush shows off one of his prizes